Decorating material



(mmm) P. M. HEERWAGEN. DECORATING MATERIAL. No.v 522,369. Patented July s, 1894.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Y

PAUL M. HEERWAGEN, or LITTLE RocK, ARKANSAS.

DECORATING MATERIAL.

srncrrrcA'rIoN forming perror Letters Patent No. 522,369, dated July e, 11394A hpplication filed November 24, 1893.

ing the interiors of buildings, &c., and has,

for its object'to provide a material capable of bemg shaped or formed by the decorator and which is adapted to be secured in place by cement or its equivalent, to avoid the use of tacks, nails, and the like.

With this object in viewthleginvention conslsts in a certain novel construction combinafion, and arrangement of partsiwhich is fully described hereinafter in connection with the drawings, and is particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings: Figurel is a cross-section of a portion of a wall and ceiling showing a molding constructed from decorating material embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of a sheet or pieceA of the material, the layers being exposed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-section of the same.

Similar numerals ofL reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures ofthe drawings.

The improved decorating material is, constructed of-a base of paper, as shown at l, surmounted by a layer 2 of light canvas which Serial No. 491,884. (No specimens.)

is cemented to the said base; an external layer 4 of paper, which forms the face of the completed molding; and a layer of pliable wire webbing 3 interposed between the external and canvas layers and secured by cement.

After the parts or members of the material are combined as above described, and cemented, they are preferably subjected to pressure to secure unbroken contact throughcut, after which .the material may be molded as desired and applied to the surface to which it is to be attached by means of cement. Thel paper base forms a smooth surface for contact with the surface to which the material is to be attached, and the canvas layer provides the necessary strength or tenacity.

Having described my invention, what I claim is As a new article of manufacture, amaterial for ornamental molding or fresco-work, consisting of a base of paper surmounted by a layer ofvcanvas which is cemented thereto, an external layer of paper, and a layer of pliable wire webbing, interposed between the external and canvas layers and secured by cement, substantially as specified. Y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PAUL M. HEERWAGEN.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. WHITTERN, LOUIS HEERWAGEN. 

